ATOP at AAMAS2010: Call for Participation

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			   Call for Participation

  Agent-based Technologies and applications for enterprise interOPerability
				  ATOP 2010
		  (http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop)

Workshop to be held at the Ninth International Joint Conference on Autonomous
		   Agents & Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010)
		     (http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/)

		         Toronto, Canada, 10 May 2010
				   
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Joerg P. Mueller, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Renato Levy, Intelligent Automation, Inc, Rockville, USA

IMPORTANT NOTES

Please go to http://www-ags.dfki.uni-sb.de/~kuf/atop to find the
workshop program and further details on the workshop.

Early registration for AAMAS 2010 and the workshop expires on Friday 12.3.!!!

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP TOPICS

ATOP  focuses  on  technologies  that support  interoperability  in  networked
organizations,  on  successful  applications  of these  technologies,  and  on
lessons learned.  The main goal is  to stimulate a discussion on how far agent
technologies  can support  interoperability  in this  context  and to  compare
current  trends   in  the  development  of  agent   technologies  with  recent
developments in  service-oriented and model-driven system  design with respect
to their  ability to solve interoperability  problems.  Regarding model-driven
system design the presentation and  discussion of metamodels of the underlying
technologies  like   for  example  agent   technologies  and  service-oriented
architectures is especially of interest.

We  would like  to focus  the  ATOP 2010  around modeling  and metamodels  for
interoperability  in agent-based  systems and  business  applications. Ideally
submitted  papers  should  deal   with  model-driven  agent  technologies  and
methodologies in the context of:

     * simulation and validation of business systems
     * decision-support in value creation networks
     * enterprise and business process modeling
     * case studies of implemented interoperability solutions and
       systems
     * coordination and negotiation in distributed business networks
     * cross-organizational business processes
     * normative environments for enterprise agents interoperability
     * decentralized and peer-to-peer models and enactment of
       business processes
     * goal-driven and adaptive business process management
     * semantic annotations of business process descriptions
     * intelligent enterprise application integration
     * business process modeling, enactment and integration
     * intelligent execution, monitoring, management, and optimization
       of business processes
     * service-oriented architectures and related topics like service
       choreography, orchestration, composition, brokering, and mediation
     * autonomic computing and adaptive autonomous architectures
     * model-driven architectures for business processes and systems
     * models and meta-models for agent-based systems
     * platform-independent models and their relation to agent models
     * model-to-model and model-to-text transformations
     * knowledge representations and ontologies in the context of
       (collaborative) business processes
     * agent communication languages and standards
     * self-organization and adaptation in the context of interoperable
       systems

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